When we go through difficult times, as the whole world is at present with the coronavirus crisis, we find great comfort in entrusting ourselves and our loved ones into the hands of our loving mother Mary. In this meditation we use texts of St Josemaria, St John Paul II and St Bernard to consider how:

• In giving birth to Jesus in Bethlehem Mary became the mother of the whole Mystical Body of the Church
• At Calvary, Jesus gave us his mother to be our own mother. She suffered unspeakably there and this makes her love us all the more 
• Mary exercised her motherly role at Cana, with the apostles and with all of us
• Mary intercedes for us before Jesus as “supplicating omnipotence”
• We should take Mary into our own keeping, as St John did, through the various Marian devotions and customs, especially the rosary